And stronger.
Panthers O-Line Roster 2010
67 Ryan Kalil C 6-2 295
63 Chris Morris C 6-4 305
73 Mackenzy Bernadeau G 6-4 308
71 C.J. Davis G 6-2 308
72 Duke Robinson G 6-5 330
70 Travelle Wharton G 6-4 312
64 Rob Petitti OL 6-6 327
69 Jordan Gross OT 6-4 305
79 Jeff Otah OT 6-6 330
74 Geoff Schwartz OT 6-6 331
65 Garry Williams OT 6-3 296
Auburn
50 Ryan Pugh OL 6-4 297 SR HOOVER, AL
53 Bart Eddins OL 6-4 304 SR MONTGOMERY, AL
57 Byron Isom OL 6-3 302 SR JONESBORO, GA
60 Eric Mack OL 6-3 361 FR SAINT MATTHEWS, SC
61 Donnie Riggins OL 6-8 275 SO WETUMPKA, AL
62 Chad Slade OL 6-5 316 FR MOODY, AL
63 Blake Burgess OL 6-2 278 FR VESTAVIA HILLS, AL
64 Chase Seals OL 6-7 300 FR AUBURN, AL
65 Tunde Fariyike OL 6-2 330 FR THOMASTON, GA
66 Mike Berry OL 6-3 316 SR ANTIOCH, TN
67 Bobby Ingalis OL 6-7 320 JR GARDENDALE, AL
68 Ed Christian OL 6-4 277 FR VALDOSTA, GA
69 Ryan Preston OL 6-1 278 FR OXFORD, AL
70 Andre Harris OL 6-3 318 FR LOVEJOY, GA
71 John Sullen OL 6-6 312 SO AUBURN, AL
72 Andrew Parmer OL 5-10 267 SO DALTON, GA
73 Lee Ziemba OL 6-8 319 SR ROGERS, AR
75 Brandon Mosley OL 6-6 299 JR JEFFERSON, GA
76 Jorrell Bostrom OL 6-3 322 SR NAMPA, ID
77 A.J. Greene OL 6-5 291 JR MADISON, TN
78 Roszell Gayden OL 6-6 315 JR NEW HOPE, MN
79 Jared Cooper OL 6-4 300 JR BREWTON, AL
As Bearflag70 posted, size isn’t really that much different on some of the best college teams. What is different is speed, strength, and experience; especially speed.
I think you’re conflating “potential” with “ability.”
Some of the guys on that Kentucky team were drafted highly not because they were able to hang at the NBA level, it’s because they had skills and size which projected to play at the NBA level in a few years. Just look at Daniel Orton, who averaged 3 points and 3 rebounds a game (in 13 minutes per game) with the Wildcats, yet was drafted in the first round of the NBA draft. He’s currently in the NBADL.
I’m thinking the Michael Jordan, James Worthy, Sam Perkins UNC team, but probably even they with a rookie minus 1 Worthy and rookie minus 2 Jordan probably wouldn’t cut it.
I think that maybe a great college team from the 80’s (when even the best players stayed 3 if not 4 years) could hang with a bad NBA team from today, when anyone with any potential goes straight to the league. Hell, the college team might even be older on average.
60 Eric Mack OL 6-3 361 FR SAINT MATTHEWS, SC
:eek:
Here’sa picture of him.
I was kind of shocked at this guy:
61 Donnie Riggins OL 6-8 275 SO WETUMPKA, AL
6’8" and 275? An offensive lineman? Sure, he’s taller than shit, but he’s gonna get yoinked around by the guy who’s three inches shorter but outweighs him by 50 pounds or more.
Anytime I see a thread like this, I remember going to a University of Washington game when the women’s team was top ranked and the men’s team was coached by Bob Bender. Someone asked if we thought the women’s team could beat the men’s team. The consensus was that the point spread would be the men by 50.
They would be annihilated. CFL 1st stringers are guys who couldn’t cut it on an NFL practice roster. This coming from someone that LOVES the CFL and is a huge fan of the back to back champ Alouettes, it almost hurts me to say.
However, in fairness I must point out the score of the last ever CFL/U.S. (i.e., AFL) game played:
August 8th, 1961. Hamilton Tiger-Cats 38. Buffalo Bills 21. The only Canadian team to beat an American pro team.
There. Something else to put on your wall of shame, Bills fans. 
For many years, there was a game that matched a college all-star team against the NFL champion. It was nearly always won by the NFL players, and it usually wasn’t close.
I’d submit that the gap between the Panthers and the best NFL team is much less than the gap between Auburn and team made up of college all-stars from all over the country.
I believe it was last year a reporter asked Geno Auriemma (coach of UConn women’s team) what he thought the score would be if his (awesome) women’s team played the UConn men’s team. His answer: “whatever the men wanted it to be”
In soccer, the US Women’s National Team will scrimmage mid-teen boys’ teams. When my nephew was around 14, he scrimmaged the women. I believe it ended 0-0. It was an elite team (CalSouth ODP team), but still, they played the best women players in the country, some of the best in the world (the US is always ranked among the top 2 or 3). The gender gap is huge in most, if not all, sports.
Chicago College All-Star Game - Wikipedia There were 41 games, for charity, played between the college all stars and a NFL champ. They games were well attended. In the early days the games were competitive but pro teams got better and better. Last time a pro team lost was in 1963. The games continued for about 15 more years.
I suspect the Lion teams of the last few years would have been vulnerable.
Again, I’ll tell this story.
In 2003, the fall after Syracuse won a national basketball championship, they played an exhibition game with the Harlem Globetrotters. Remember, the Globetrotters is made up of players who fall just short of being good enough to make an NBA roster. One of the people attended said that he expected it to be a close game.
I replied, “Are you kidding?”
The Globetrotters destroyed Syracuse. They were bigger, faster, and stronger. They scored several baskets by just grabbing a rebound on the Syracuse side and just tossing the ball down the court with no one there to receive it, trusting that a player would be fast enough to outrun the Syracuse player, grab the ball before it went out of bounds, and score an uncontested basket. And they were right in their trust.
In football, the difference is even greater. Even though I don’t know their roster, I can say with confidence that Auburn has no more than ten players who will get more than a quick look at the NFL. The worst NFL team is made up of the top players of dozens of college squads. Auburn might meet one or two of players of that quality in each game and can set a game plan to avoid them (on offence) or stop them (on defense). But there is no way to avoid the NFL players.
I have a hard time believing this. First of all, the globetrotters don’t play real games. Second of all Carmelo Anthony would have been the best player on either team by a million miles. Third of all, the secondary players of national championship caliber teams are exactly the type of players that are barely not good enough for the NBA. They’re the players that would be on the globetrotters, but would be in form from playing real competitive games.
In short, you watched the WWE on a basketball court.
Make no mistake, the Globetrotters are top of the line basketball players. It’s a huge mistake to think that all they can do is entertain.
Maybe if you gave the CFL team CFL rules and the NFL team NFL rules – so the CFL team has 12 players to the NFL’s team 11. But even then, I think that the CFL’s team linemen would end up getting mauled out there, and that’d be the ballgame.